Day 37: NWC Benefit Bash
Tonight is/was the 2nd Annual NWC Benefit Bash. It was an event I started last year to help raise money and awareness for victims of weather related disasters. Last year the event raised money for a young girl who lost both her parents in the 10 February 2009 Lone Grove, OK EF-4 tornado. This year the event raised money for the Central Oklahoma Chapter of the American Red Cross to help restore their depleted funds after the Christmas Eve Blizzard in 2009.
In keeping with the theme, the image below is a water vapor satellite image from approximately noon central standard time on Christmas Eve. It shows a very strong upper-low poised just south of Oklahoma. As Oklahomans quickly learned, the track the upper-low took is very favorable for heavy snow in the Oklahoma City metro. Ultimate, when all was said and done, Oklahoma City broke the all-time record for most snow in 24 hours and the most snow from a single storm with an official total of 13.5″ of snow at Will Rogers World Airport.
With this said, another snow storm is poised to affect the southern plains late tomorrow into early Tuesday. I’ll have more on this tomorrow.
